On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Stephen Clouse <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, David Nicol <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What does Stephen Clouse have against PHP? > > > http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > That is an excellent rant. PHP appears to have been optimized for bureaucratic embedding. The "PHP guy" sets something up that sort of works, and then remains there extending it for years and years. So is there an alternative to simply ignoring the many job postings looking for PHP-competent hackers? Offer to rewrite the PHP stuff in something else? By tomorrow? Not practical. > So you're over autoconverting scalars? Or is that feature now available >> enough other places. >> > > You lost me somewhere. > I was replying to "Moose seems like the only thing Perl has going for it any more." The weak typing was what made it interesting to me when i first encountered it, so long ago; I guess I was trying to imply a cheerful question, please share what aspects Perl used to have, that aren't fun any more?
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